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Marie Ndiaye - Inhospitable Fictions (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,219
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Marie Ndiaye - Inhospitable Fictions (Hardcover): Shirley Ann Jordan

Marie Ndiaye - Inhospitable Fictions (Hardcover)

Shirley Ann Jordan

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At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967-) is the issue of the stranger's welcome. NDiaye's fascination with a spectrum of outsider figures and with the multiple, often subtle practices which create and sustain social groups as bounded entities, gives rise to detailed and disquieting portrayals not of hospitality but of the mechanisms and rituals of repulsion. Engaging with critical theory on hospitality across the disciplines, Shirley Jordan's closely argued analysis of NDiaye's novels, theatre and short stories probes the tropes of inhospitality around which the writer's work coalesces, exploring the ethical significance of a corpus in which communities, environments and spaces are persistently tainted by unwelcoming. NDiaye is seen to elaborate a fantastic anthropology: one which, through sustained attentiveness to non-observance of the rules of hospitality, provides a focus for debate about belonging in a postcolonial world.

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Imprint: Legenda
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2014
First published: May 2014
Authors: Shirley Ann Jordan
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 978-1-907975-85-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN: 1-907975-85-3
Barcode: 9781907975851

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